What next for Ireland now that the Republic has astounded the pundits by producing a landslide in favour of overturning the 1983 constitutional amendment that gave equal rights to the unborn? Published: 27 May 2018 As the journalist Jason O'Mahony tweeted pithily:...

Published: 23 May 2018 If it were not for its offensiveness to tens of thousands of victims of IRA violence, Jeremy Corbyn’s visit to Northern Ireland would be comic. In his past incursions into matters Irish, he has appeared to reveal simultaneously ignorance,...

Once decent Labour Party must ditch the anti-Semitism and refind its soul, says Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 21 May 2018 Among the uglier manifestations of the new Labour establishment is a hatred of Israel so profound as to be indistinguishable from pathological...

Sinn Fein's mendacious rewriting of history now sees its members recast as civil rights heroes Published: Sunday 20 May 2018 Of course I know that the bloodstained record it defends, and the lies, corruption and destructiveness of the contemporary Irish republican...

Whether naive, or arrogant, Varadkar and Coveney are crossing the line on Northern Ireland affairs. Slavish towards Brussels and meddlesome up north amounts to a bad combination, says Ruth Dudley Edwards.

What’s so illiberal about debating abortion? I’m with Julie Bindel in fighting disgusting practices such as Female Genital Mutilation and in standing up to the trans mob, but I part company with her over the abortion debate in Ireland, about which she is so impatient.

When looking at the debate over the past Secretary of State, please ignore bad guys. A new book offers a moral solution to the legacy issue that is bedevilling negotiations. Ruth Dudley Edwards pens an open letter to Secretary of State Karen Bradley.

Ignorance and bigotry have combined to push Irish republicanism into hatred of Israel, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 23 April 2018 The storm about anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is clearly irritating Jeremy Corbyn, who can’t see it. The hard-Left — like...

Tough, funny and effective, Barbara Bush was pre-eminent among recent US first ladies, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: Sunday 22 April 2018 Barbara Bush, tougher than her husband and known to her family as 'The Enforcer', is probably the most popular of all...

More people are now reading murder mysteries than any other fiction. RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS says it's because of our yearning for justice Published: 12 April 2018 As a crime writer, I'm delighted, but not surprised, that crime fiction has been declared the most...

Sinn Fein's breathtaking double standards: O'Neill's attack on violence of dissidents just lot of hot air as long as she still eulogises IRA. Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill is guilty of double standards when it comes to IRA violence.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have been wowing more than 2,500 young people at the Eikon Exhibition Centre, as well as a random collection of bystanders in Belfast fascinated by an unlikely romance between an ex-soldier and an American TV star.

'If we can't forgive Sean O'Callaghan, who can we forgive?" was asked by a born-again Christian last Wednesday at the wake Sean's family and friends held after an extraordinary memorial service, full of great music and challenging words.

London service a fitting farewell to reformed IRA killer who made it his mission to decry terrorism. It doesn't really fit the republican narrative, says Ruth Dudley Edwards, but Sean O'Callaghan was greatly loved

The very slight kerfuffle over the last few days about Daily Mirror allegations about yet another English town being the scene of hideous child sexual exploitation didn’t seem to be bothering the local cops any more than the chorus of “Me Too”.

What was charity thinking, considering the number of children to die at hands of republicans, asks Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 12 March 2018 Last week, Barnardo’s Ireland issued a happy tweet along with a smiley photograph: “Great to have so...

O’Callaghan was a man who put himself in mortal danger for several years by working within the senior ranks of the IRA as a police agent for the Irish state. As he knew all too well, anyone exposed as an informer/traitor/tout, could expect to be tortured and murdered by his erstwhile colleagues.

Despite the fuss, my criticisms of the Belfast Agreement have nothing to do with Brexit, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: Sunday 25 February 2018 Last week an article of mine in The Daily Telegraph sparked off a big row between Brexiteers and Remainers over the...

Senior Labour officials are alleged to have aided the Soviet Union. Left-leaning Oxfam is accused of covering up the sexual exploitation of impoverished Haitians and its chief executive, hauled before MPs, admits that the charity faces 26 further allegations of sexual misconduct.

The obsessively progressive Guardian newspaper has it in for the Freemasons. The most recent assault was precipitated by shock-horror revelations - as discussed by deeply concerned columnist Dawn Foster.

The obsessively progressive Guardian newspaper has it in for the Freemasons. The most recent assault was precipitated by shock-horror revelations - as discussed by deeply concerned columnist Dawn Foster.

In normal political parties almost everyone wants to be leader. But how many senior people in Sinn Fein truly envy Mary Lou McDonald as - in theory at least - she takes control of the morass that is the island-wide party?

The news yesterday that the Hyde Park Justice Campaign has scored a famous victory took me back almost 15 years. It was on August 8, 2003 that Paul Murphy, the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, announced that legal aid would be provided to the families taking a civil case against the Omagh bombers.

Towards the end of his interview with Gerry Adams yesterday, Andrew Marr asked him what difference the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister would make, adding that the Labour leader has ‘always supported a united Ireland and he’s been a big backer of yours over years’.

"Last Tango in The Balmoral," began a tweet from Gerry Adams on Friday, attaching his most recent blog, which appears weekly in Sinn Fein's remaining Pravda (An Phoblact is now on-line only) - the Anderstonstown News - describing a dance he had had with Michelle O'Neill, now known as the "Leader of the North" - a title the Master Blogger Mick Fealty describes as "a bit Game of Thrones."

Spare a thought for Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of the Scottish Government and – faithfully supported by her husband, chief executive Peter Murrell – up to now the unchallenged leader of the Scottish National Party.

What has happened to the Alliance Party, which used to pride itself on its independence and its commitment to democratic values? Here are just three recent disturbing examples of how far it has fallen.

I was just poised to write about 'Tweeting Lord Kilclooney' (as I think of him these days), though he was just humble UUP MP John Taylor when I met him in the 1980s. Then the furore about Sinn Fein MP Barry McElduff's Kingsmill-related tweet burst upon the airwaves.

Bea Worton is a stoic, as she has needed to be. Born in 1927 in Co Armagh, she was a housewife, mother and grandmother. A product of a non-sectarian school, she and her family got on fine with their Catholic neighbours.